Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announced yesterday at the military office that new enrolments for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be started after the April recess. Full particulars as to the place and manner of enrolment will be announced later. It was found impossible, owing to the large amount of preparation necessary before new men can be examined and enlisted, to start the work of forming the new companies in the few days left before College breaks up. The instruction for the new increment will start on May 7, when the entire Corps is to go into intensive training...
...have any men in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps who are not going in for intensive training with the full understanding that they are to be officers. Inasmuch as those men who intend to enlist in the Corps will have to make up in a short time a considerable amount of work which the men now enrolled have already covered, Captain Cordier stated last night that they would find it to their advantage to do certain text-book assignments during the vacation. The work should cover the "Infantry Drill Regulations" through paragraph 231, the "Small Arms Firing Manual" through page...
...growing sentiment at that college that athletics should not be entirely given up. The board will make its stand known tomorrow. Regardless of its decision, the track and baseball coaches are to be retained and opportunity given to those students who desire to go on with a certain amount of outdoor sport...
...worked up slowly and elaborately into conventional fiction form. Much of the "free verse" seen in the magazines is of this type--some of it quite successful and interesting, in its way, like Mr. Snow's poem, "The Girardian," in the Advocate--while a certain amount of the residual prose itself, like Mr. Low's sketches "Inspiration" and "The Forest," in the same number, tends to approximate the same type...
From the first I was impressed by the amount of space allotted to verse in the Advocate--a paper with poetic traditions, if ever paper had them--and I cannot see why one whole issue should not be devoted to it from time to time. Surely it is not necessary to remind the editors that the qualities that make vital all literature exist in what we roughly classify as poetry, to a far higher degree than in what, with equal roughness, we classify as prose. As an ex-editor, I sympathize with their professional zeal for "balance," while realizing that...